From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id: <10108041914.AA13523@clio.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: Windows 2000 /dev/null permission query
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Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 14:14:24 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <1438-Sat04Aug2001171146+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Aug 04, 2001 05:11:47 PM
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> It's not a Bash issue, it's an issue with one of our library functions
> called when we redirect output: some of them fail on Windows 2000 when
> the target is the null device (or maybe any device they emulate for
> DOS).

In particular, open on /dev/null fails using O_TRUNC

Haven't had a chance to debug further.